Cancer Education Course Series:
Medical Marijuana Use in Patients with Cancer
Provided by
University of Connecticut School of Medicine
Office of Community and Continuing Medical Education and the Carole and Ray Neag Comprehensive Cancer Center
Speaker: Lisa Holle, PharmD, BCOP, FHOPA
Date: Tuesday, September 26, 2017
Time: 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
Location: UConn Health, Outpatient Pavilion, 1st floor conference room S1501
Target Audience: Primary care physicians and APRN’s,, medical oncologists, gynecologists, gynecological oncologists, surgical oncologists, radiologists, radiation oncologists, oncology nurses, physician assistants and any other clinicians involved in the management and treatment of patients with cancer.
Learning Objectives: Participants will (be able to):
1.Explain the pharmacologic principles and evidence-based indications for use of medical marijuana in patients with cancer.
2. Explain the pharmacologic principles and evidence-based indications for use of medical marijuana in patients with cancer.
3. Choose an approach to managing medical marijuana in a patient with cancer, using regulatory and clinical knowledge.
Accreditation: The University of Connecticut School of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians. The University of Connecticut School of Medicine designates this live activity for a maximum of 1 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Conflict of Interest Policy: All faculty members participating in CME activities provided by the University of Connecticut School of Medicine are required to disclose to the program audience any actual or apparent conflict of interest related to the content of their presentations. Program planners have an obligation to resolve any actual conflicts of interest and share with the audience any safeguards put in place to prevent commercial bias from influencing the content. The activity director, planning committee members, nor the speaker, Lisa Holle, has a financial interest/arrangement or affiliation with any organizations that could be perceived as a real or apparent conflict of interest in the context of the subject of this presentation. Lisa Holle will not be discussing the off-labeled use of any product. This CME activity has no commercial support associated with it.
Evaluations: Participants are required to complete an electronic evaluation in order to obtain CME Credits. An email from MyEvaluations.com with instructions will be sent to participants. Please complete the evaluation within one week of receiving the email.
If you do not receive an evaluation assignment from MyEvaluations.com within 10 business days of this activity, please contact the Department that hosted this activity (indicated above) to ensure that your MyEvaluations.com account is set up and your participation in this activity was forwarded to the CME office.
For more information, contact: Julie Dudek/Carole and Ray Neag Comprehensive Cancer Center at dudek@uchc.edu